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Proverbs 17

Prov. 17:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The beginning
re'shiyth (Hebrew #7225)
the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit)
KJV usage: beginning, chief(-est), first(-fruits, part, time), principal thing.
Pronounce: ray-sheeth'
Origin: from the same as 7218
of strife
madown (Hebrew #4066)
a contest or quarrel
KJV usage: brawling, contention(-ous), discord, strife. Compare 4079, 4090.
Pronounce: maw-dohn'
Origin: from 1777
is as when one letteth out
patar (Hebrew #6362)
to cleave or burst through, i.e. (causatively) to emit, whether literal or figurative (gape)
KJV usage: dismiss, free, let (shoot) out, slip away.
Pronounce: paw-tar'
Origin: a primitive root
water
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
: thereforeo leave off
natash (Hebrew #5203)
properly, to pound, i.e. smite; by implication (as if beating out, and thus expanding) to disperse; also, to thrust off, down, out or upon (inclusively, reject, let alone, permit, remit, etc.)
KJV usage: cast off, drawn, let fall, forsake, join (battle), leave (off), lie still, loose, spread (self) abroad, stretch out, suffer.
Pronounce: naw-tash'
Origin: a primitive root
contention
riyb (Hebrew #7379)
from 7378; a contest (personal or legal)
KJV usage: + adversary, cause, chiding, contend(-tion), controversy, multitude (from the margin), pleading, strife, strive(-ing), suit.
Pronounce: reeb
Origin: or rib {reeb}
, before
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
it be meddled
gala` (Hebrew #1566)
to be obstinate
KJV usage: (inter-)meddle (with).
Pronounce: gaw-lah'
Origin: a primitive root
with.
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Prov. 20:3• 3It is for a man's honour to keep aloof from strife;{HR}But every fool will rush in. (Prov. 20:3)

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 17:19• 19He loveth transgression that loveth a quarrel:{HR}He that raiseth high his gate seeketh destruction. (Prov. 17:19)
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Prov. 26:21• 21[As] coals to hot embers, and wood to fire,{HR}So a contentious man to kindle strife. (Prov. 26:21)
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Prov. 29:22• 22{i}An angry man exciteth contention;{HR}And a furious man aboundeth in transgression.{/i} (Prov. 29:22)
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Judg. 12:1‑6• 1{i}And the men of Ephraim were called together, and passed over northwards, and said to Jephthah, Why didst thou pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? We will burn thy house upon thee with fire.{/i}
 2{i}And Jephthah said to them, I was at great strife, I and my people, with the children of Ammon; and I called you, but ye saved me not out of their hand.{/i}
 3{i}And when I saw that ye would not save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Jehovah gave them into my hand. Why then are ye come up to me this day, to fight against me?{/i}
 4{i}And Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye, Gilead, ye are fugitives of Ephraim in the midst of Ephraim, and in the midst of Manasseh.{/i}
 5{i}And Gilead took the fords of the Jordan before Ephraim; and it came to pass that when the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, Art thou an Ephraimite? and he said, No.{/i}
 6{i}Then they said to him, Say now Shibboleth! and he said, Sibboleth, and did not manage to pronounce it rightly. Then they took him, and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of Ephraim forty-two thousand.{/i} (Judg. 12:1‑6)
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2 Sam. 2:14‑17• 14{i}And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise and make sport before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.{/i}
 15{i}And they arose and went over by number, twelve for Benjamin, and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.{/i}
 16{i}And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side, and they fell down together. And that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is by Gibeon.{/i}
 17{i}And the battle that day was very severe; and Abner and the men of Israel were routed before the servants of David.{/i} (2 Sam. 2:14‑17)
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2 Sam. 19:41‑43• 41{i}And behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king{/i}, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over Jordan?
 42And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or hath he given us any gift?
 43And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye; {i}and why didst thou slight me? and was not my advice the first, to bring back my king? And the words of the men of Judah were harsher than the words of the men of Israel.{/i} (2 Sam. 19:41‑43)
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2 Sam. 20:1‑22• 1{i}And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite; and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, Israel.{/i}
 2{i}Then all the men of Israel went up from after David, following Sheba the son of Bichri. But the men of Judah clave to their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.{/i}
 3{i}And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women, concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in a house of confinement and maintained them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.{/i}
 4{i}And the king said to Amasa, Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and do thou attend here.{/i}
 5{i}So Amasa went to call together the men of Judah; but he delayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him.{/i}
 6{i}And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom. Take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities and escape our sight.{/i}
 7{i}And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.{/i}
 8{i}When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came before them. And Joab was girded with his coat, his dress, and upon it was the girdle of the sword which was fastened on his loins in its sheath; and as he went forth it fell out.{/i}
 9{i}And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou well, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.{/i}
 10{i}And Amasa had taken no notice of the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him with it in the belly and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. And Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.{/i}
 11{i}And one of Joab's young men stood by Amasa and said, He that favours Joab, and he that is for David, let him follow Joab.{/i}
 12{i}Now Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that everyone that came by stood still.{/i}
 13{i}When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri,{/i}
 14{i}who went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth-Maacah, and all the Berim; and they gathered together, and went also after him.{/i}
 15{i}And they came and besieged him in Abel-Beth-Maacah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it was raised in the trench; and all the people that were with Joab sapped the wall, to throw it down.{/i}
 16{i}And a wise woman cried out of the city, Hear, hear: say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.{/i}
 17{i}And he came near to her; and the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he said, I am he. And she said to him, Listen to the words of thy handmaid. And he said, I am listening.{/i}
 18{i}And she spoke saying, They were wont to speak in old time saying, Just inquire in Abel; and so they ended.{/i}
 19{i}I am peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah?{/i}
 20{i}And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.{/i}
 21{i}The matter is not so; but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David: give up him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.{/i}
 22{i}Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.{/i} (2 Sam. 20:1‑22)
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2 Chron. 10:14‑16• 14and answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions.
 15{i}So the king hearkened not to the people; for it was brought about by God, that Jehovah might give effect to his word, which he spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.{/i}
 16{i}And all Israel saw that the king hearkened not to them; and the people answered the king saying, What portion have we in David? and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel. Now see to thine own house, David! And all Israel went to their tents.{/i} (2 Chron. 10:14‑16)
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2 Chron. 13:17• 17{i}And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter{/i}; so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. (2 Chron. 13:17)
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2 Chron. 25:17‑24• 17{i}And Amaziah king of Judah took counsel, and sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.{/i}
 18{i}And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thorn-bush that is in Lebanon sent to the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son as wife; and there passed by the wild beast that is in Lebanon, and trode down the thorn-bush.{/i}
 19{i}Thou thinkest, Lo, thou hast smitten Edom; and thy heart has lifted thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou contend with misfortune, that thou shouldest fall, thou and Judah with thee?{/i}
 20{i}But Amaziah would not hear; for it was of God, that he might deliver them into the enemy's hand, because they had sought after the gods of Edom.{/i}
 21{i}And Joash king of Israel went up; and they looked one another in the face, he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-shemesh, which is in Judah.{/i}
 22{i}And Judah was routed before Israel; and they fled every man to his tent.{/i}
 23{i}And Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and he broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.{/i}
 24{i}And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-Edom, and the treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.{/i} (2 Chron. 25:17‑24)
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2 Chron. 28:6• 6{i}And{/i} Pekah, the son of Remaliah, slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken Jehovah God of their fathers. (2 Chron. 28:6)
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Prov. 13:10• 10By pride cometh only contention;{HR}But with the well-advised [is] wisdom. (Prov. 13:10)
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Prov. 14:29• 29One slow to anger [is] of great understanding;{HR}But the hasty of spirit holdeth up folly. (Prov. 14:29)
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Prov. 15:1• 1A soft answer turneth away fury;{HR}But a grievous word stirreth up anger. (Prov. 15:1)
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Prov. 16:32• 32The slow to anger [is] better than the mighty;{HR}And he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. (Prov. 16:32)
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Prov. 19:11• 11The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger;{HR}And [it is] his glory to pass over a transgression. (Prov. 19:11)
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Prov. 20:3• 3It is for a man's honour to keep aloof from strife;{HR}But every fool will rush in. (Prov. 20:3)
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Prov. 25:8• 8Go not forth hastily to strive,{HR}Lest [thou know not] what to do in the end thereof,{HR}When thy neighbour hath put thee to shame. (Prov. 25:8)
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Gen. 13:8‑9• 8{i}And Abram said to Lot, I pray thee let there be no contention between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we are brethren.{/i}
 9{i}Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if to the left, then I will take the right; and if to the right, then I will take the left.{/i} (Gen. 13:8‑9)
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Judg. 8:1‑3• 1And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.
 2And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer?
 3{i}Into your hands hath God delivered the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and what was I able to do in comparison with you? Then their spirit was appeased toward him, when he said that word.{/i} (Judg. 8:1‑3)
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Eccl. 7:8‑9• 8Better [is] the end of a thing than the beginning thereof:{HR}And the patient in spirit [is] better than the proud in spirit.
 9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry:{HR}For anger resteth in the bosom of fools. (Eccl. 7:8‑9)
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Matt. 5:39‑41• 39But I say to you, Resist not evil; but whoever shall strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
 40And to him that would go to law with thee and take thy coat, leave him to take thy cloak also.
 41And whoever will impress thee for one mile, go with him two. (Matt. 5:39‑41)
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Acts 6:1‑5• 1Now in those days, when the disciples were multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews that their widows were overlooked in the daily ministration.
 2And the twelve, having called the multitude of the disciples unto [them] said, It is not seemly that we, leaving the word of God, should serve tables.
 3Look out then, brethren, from among you seven men of good report full of [the] Spirit and wisdom, whom we will appoint over this business;
 4but we for our part will give ourselves closely to prayer and the ministry of the word.
 5And the saying pleased all the multitude; and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of [the] Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch, (Acts 6:1‑5)
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Acts 15:2‑21• 2And when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and questioning with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up unto Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
 3They therefore having been set forward by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, recounting the conversion of the Gentiles, and they caused great joy to all the brethren.
 4And on arriving at Jerusalem they were welcomed by the assembly, and the apostles, and the elders, and reported all things that God did with them.
 5But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees, believers, saying, It is necessary to circumcise them and charge [them] to keep the law of Moses.
 6And the apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.
 7And when there had been much questioning, Peter stood up and said to them, Brethren, ye know how that from early days God chose among you that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
 8And the heart-knowing God bore them witness giving [them] the Holy Spirit, even as to us also:
 9and he put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
 10Now therefore why tempt ye God, that ye should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
 11But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus we shall be saved in like manner as they.
 12And all the multitude kept silence, and they hearkened unto Barnabas and Paul rehearsing what signs and wonders God wrought among the Gentiles by them.
 13And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Brethren, hearken to me.
 14Simeon has rehearsed how God first visited [the] Gentiles to take out of [them] a people for his name.
 15And to this agree the words of the prophets, as it is written.
 16After these things I will return and build again the tabernacle of David which is fallen, and will build again its ruins and will set it up,
 17so that the residue of men may seek out the Lord, and all the nations upon whom my name is called saith [the] Lord, who maketh [all] these things
 18known from the beginning of the world.
 19Wherefore my judgment is that we trouble not those who from the Gentiles turn to God,
 20but write to them that they may abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
 21For Moses from generations of old hath in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath. (Acts 15:2‑21)
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Rom. 12:18• 18if possible, on your part be at peace with all men; (Rom. 12:18)
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1 Thess. 4:11• 11and that ye make it your aim to be quiet and mind your own affairs and work with your own hands, even as we charged you, (1 Thess. 4:11)
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2 Tim. 2:23‑24• 23But foolish and ignorant questionings avoid, knowing that they beget contentions.
 24And a bondman of [the] Lord must not contend, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing, (2 Tim. 2:23‑24)
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James 3:14‑18• 14But if ye have bitter emulation and faction in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.
 15This wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, natural, demoniacal.
 16For where envying and faction [are], there disorder [is] and every bad deed.
 17But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, uncontentious, impartial.
 18And righteousness' fruit in peace is being sown for those that make peace. (James 3:14‑18)
• A leak in a dike that could be stopped with a pebble, if noticed at the beginning, will, if neglected, grow greater and greater until, at last, the inrushing waters will carry all before them. So it is with strife. (“Proverbs Seventeen” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The beginning of contention is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave off strife before it become vehement.

W. Kelly Translation

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The beginning of contention is [as] when one letteth out water;{HR}Therefore leave off strife before it become vehement.